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Information and education is an essential part of diabetes treatment to ensure that people with diabetes will be able to live as well and with as few complications as possible. It is often up to the individual educator to give adequate information. Despite many possibilities, the patients’ needs are not necessarily considered. The objective of the literature review was to see if patients had preferences to which diabetes information they receive as well as if they had preferences in which manner they receive diabetes information. The method was a systematic literature review based on the seven steps of Willman et al. [20]. Seven articles [21-27] were found and used. The literature searches were made in three databases; Pub-Med, CINAHL and ERIC. The result showed that patients did indeed have preferences to which information they received and in which manner they prefer to receive it. The patients wanted Individual, Specific and Reliable information and they wanted to receive it Continuously, Supportively, Easily and in Multiple Formats.